The family planning policy is a population control legislation of the PRC that acts on over 40 percent of the country’s populace with exceptions in some communities. For instance, in some communities, a second child was permissible if the initial child was a female. Legally,…

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Nevertheless, the policy continued to receive a series of accusations from both within the country and the international community in relation to human abuse issues and other negative social consequences. After the introduction of the one child policy in china, questions arose regarding the consequences of such a policy (Liu 567). For a policy whose effects are multifaceted and cut across an array of social-economic and political issues, it would seem rather absurd that the government took such austerity measures without considering public opinion on the issue. Nevertheless, the recent relaxation of the one-child policy and the subsequent legislation of the two-child policy is a topic worth discussing. The sudden shift in paradigms calls for a scrutiny of the economic implications of the policies. The most probable cause for immediate adoption of the two-child policy could have resulted from the rapidly aging population that similarly presents a huge financial burden on the government (Rosenberg, & Jing 53). Critics of the government claim that the hardline stand on the government measure was a negative to the government. Political critics cite that though the move was critical in controlling the rapidly swelling population, it came wrapped in a wrong package.
With the implementation of the new policy, the government expects that the challenges presented by the faults of the initial population would be redeemed. Public opinion, pressure from, government critics and the rapidly diminishing face of the government from the international community were critical in ushering in the new leaf. Based on these issues tabled by family experts, lawyers, the clergy and the other stakeholders, it deemed vital to the researcher to undertake a review of the issues surrounding the topic.
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...exceptions for rural areas and for families where the couple were single child of their respective families or parents whose child was disabled or dead. There was huge penalty for violating the policy norm of onechild in urban areas. The family was charged for having second child, all welfare amenities were withdrawn and the promotion of working parents withheld. The rural population, ethnic minorities were allowed to have two children on request or sometimes even three or four. Birth spacing of 3-4 years was requisite for second pregnancy. The policy was enforced at provincial level and any times,...

...on the shortcomings as well as the irreparable dangers of their espoused one-childpolicy.
Cybernetics vs. Marxism Population Concepts
Furthermore, the new cybernetics philosophy discarded China’s prior Karl Marx population concepts on population control. The Marxist philosophy indicated that the farmers needed a son to till the fields and help the family survive. Many China humanist philosophers preferred the Marxist population concept over the modern day cybernetics population concepts. The Marxist principles required government to include the comments, suggestions, complaints, and other inputs of the population when formulating government...

...of one-childpolicy. The one-childpolicy, however, had adverse impacts on the society as well. It could be argued that these negative impacts cancelled out the benefits obtained from the policy implementation. Due to the policy of one-child, there was increasing number of cases where mothers had to undergo forced abortions in order to abide by the regulations. The awareness and moral support of the majority of common masses could not be attained who were, forced to adhere to the policy implemented by the government through acts of infanticide. This led...

...?China’s NewOneChildPolicy From 1949 t0 1972 China’s population rose from 540 million to more than 800 million prompting the Chinese government toadopt a onechildpolicy in order to control population growth. The law went into effect in 1979. In the following thirty years the Chinese population grew to 1.2 billion, now 1.4 billion, a factor of nearly 10% less than the previous growth. So, the onechildpolicy is indeed working, but some unexpected side effects have caused the Chinese government to rethink that policy. One particularly...

...and was only implemented in the rural areas, but the implementation of one-childpolicy was extended even in urban areas. In addition, ethnic minorities, disabled people and couples who both lack siblings are also given the option of having two children. Report shows that onechildpolicy dictates that about a third of China’s population cannot have a second child without incurring fine, but again, there is a contradiction between the state’s implementation of the family planning policy and the desire of every individual or family to give birth. On the contrary, this...

...from location to location." Accordingly, in most rural areas, families are allowed to have two children if the first child is female. In addition, second children are subject to birth spacing of three or four years. If more children are born in the family, this will result in fines. It is reported that most families are required to "pay economic penalties and cannot receive bonuses from the birth control program (OneChildPolicy 2)." Privileges are given to children in onechild families one of which is lower payment.
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..., love, and life and death. Nevertheless, there seems to be no solid and reasonable argument in favour of the policy that can stand up to scrutiny today.
Works consulted
Das Gupta, Monica. "Explaining Asias Missing Women," Population and Development Review 31 (September 2005): 529-535.
Greenhalgh, Susan. Just OneChild: Science and Policy in Dengs China University of California Press, 2008.
Hasketh, Therese and Li Lu, and Zhu Wei Xing. 2005. "The effects of Chinas One-Child Family Policy after 25 Years", New England Journal of Medicine, 353, No. 11 (September 15): 1171-1176.
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...possessions and family fortunes”. Such slogans intent was to greed people about money and to make them realize that they could contribute to increasing their financial status and the country’s economy as well by raising fewer children (Fong, 2006).
Current Status
Talking about the recent news regarding the onechildpolicy China’s national population and family planning commission have made it clear that the policy would still continue until at least 2015. In 2010, according to a report and survey it was estimated that these days the policy implementation hasn’t been up to the mark and numerous families are violating it...